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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Health. 2020 Aug 14;36(8):967–984. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2020.1805450

Table 1.

Participant Demographics for the Whole Sample and by Age Group

Whole sample Younger
nurses
(ages 18-35)
Middle-aged
nurses
(ages 36-65)
SMD p-value
M (SD) M (SD) M (SD)
n 392 165 224 -- --
Age 39.54 (11.15) 29.20 (3.78) 47.16 (8.26) 2.796 <0.001
BMI 27.28 (5.84) 25.86 (5.27) 28.33 (6.02) 0.436 <0.001
PHQ-9 total 3.63 (3.99) 4.08 (4.24) 3.28 (3.79) 0.198 0.053
SCI total 21.66 (6.90) 21.49 (6.68) 21.82 (7.06) 0.047 0.650
IL-6 (pg/mL) 2.19 (2.15) 2.01 (2.19) 2.29 (2.09) 0.129 0.210
CRP (ng/mL) 30.57 (25.28) 28.79 (27.48) 31.81 (23.54) 0.118 0.245
IL-1β (pg/mL) 0.08 (0.20) 0.07 (0.21) 0.09 (0.19) 0.098 0.337
TNF-α (pg/mL) 1.33 (1.97) 1.16 (0.57) 1.46 (2.56) 0.161 0.142

Note. SCI = Sleep Condition Indicator total score. PHQ-9 = Patient Health Questionnaire-9. IL-6 = interluekin-6. CRP = C-reactive protein. TNF-α = tumor-necrosis factor alpha. IL-1β = interleukin-1 beta. BMI = body mass index. SMD = standardized mean difference.